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WATCH: IFB Focus and Real Shorts Trailers Ahead of World Premiere at Cork Film Festival

WATCH: IFB Focus and Real Shorts Trailers Ahead of World Premiere at Cork Film Festival

Posted: 17th November 2017

Ahead of their world premieres at the Cork Film Festival, read the synopses and watch the trailers to these new Irish short films, funded under Bord Scannán na hÉireann/the Irish Film Board's Focus Shorts and Real Shorts schemes.

Focus Shorts

Catcalls

A man cruises around late at night looking for something. He pulls in to ask two young girls for directions - only to flash them to get a cheap thrill. Unfortunately, he has picked the wrong girls. They are also out hunting tonight and they will stop at nothing to get their kill.

Tomato Can

Danny ‘Danger’ Kelly is a retired journeyman boxer who accepts a last-minute fight.But there’s one problem, it’s his weekend to look after his teenage daughter, Leah. Danny sees this fight as an opportunity and having no choice, he brings a very reluctant Leah along with him. He thinks he has nothing to lose, while Leah just think he’s a bit of a loser.

Hey Ronnie Reagan

In 1984 a tiny anonymous Tipperary village was thrust in to the world’s spotlight when US President Ronald Reagan arrived to visit his ancestral home. It was said that Ballyporeen would never be the same again....

The Swimmer

Stephen Redmond from West Cork was the first person ever to complete the world-famous Ocean’s Seven Challenge. It looks at the beauty and the poetry of Stephen’s passion and touches on the lives of the people he loves and those he has lost. It delves into the peculiar, solitary psyche of an open-water swimmer who spends much of his time immersed in a world underwater.